Why else would a Virginian find himself in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Barcelona, Madrid, Marrakech, Dublin, or Paris? The people, of course.

Friday, June 18, 2010

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Hi everyone who's reading this. Believe it or not, I'm on a train. Weird, right? We're heading from London to Edinburgh, and we're stopped on a bridge somewhere in between the two cities. Somehow I got internet, so I'm going to make the most of it and set up a post.

Unfortunately, the connection's too slow to put up pictures. Sorry, you'll have to wait.

Katie, who is sitting next to me, wants to tell everyone: "It's early Jackson, I'm not a morning person."

Indeed. It's 10:30am, and given that everyone woke up around 6:30, we're all exhausted. Rob asked me if we were in Wales, which is fact in precisely the opposite direction from where we're heading.

London's been great for the last few days, though. We visited Parliament, and I got to see the House of Lords in progress. As I recall, they were bickering in high-brow language about the maintenance of the building. The room was also smaller than I thought it might be, given how grand the building is.

We're all kind of bored on this train, and resorting to different methods of staving off boredom. I'm asking people for quotes.
Rob said: "Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance."
Ryan says: "A penny saved is a penny earned."
Gretchen, Prof. Maune's young daughter, says: "Uh?"
I asked Prof. Maune if he were going down on the Titanic, and I were on a lifeboat and he only had time to call out one thing to me what he would say. He replied: "Mind the gap." I thought that was clever.

Rob, Katie, and I ordered Papa Johns the other night, because when we tried to go to Scoops, a gelato place in Covent Garden, it had just closed. We ordered pizza instead. I have to say, though, it wasn't as good as in the states. The cheese didn't have the characteristic thickness, and the sauce was lackluster. Nonetheless, I enjoyed it tremendously. The scenery has improved, since we're in scotland now on bluffs overlooking the ocean, with low grass spotted with sheep.

I'll leave y'all with that. Not much by way of information, but I'll update again soon. Keep an eye out for pictures, which may or may not manifest themselves via Picasa account depending on how motivated I'm feeling. Feel free to comment on this and tell me how your life is going.
-Jackson

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